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dcicero's avatar

Chip Roy is my favorite HFC dude. Utterly unhinged. Completely in Trump's pocket. Bereft of any principles. Yells and screams and spits and rages ... and achieves nothing.

Think about what lunch with that bunch of idiots must be like. Andy Gosar, Chip Roy, ... I'll bet you can feel the intelligence leaving your body.

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David Court's avatar

Pleeze, ask me to think about anything other than having to have a meal with those clowns.

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Lynn  Bentson's avatar

Ok you can just drink water so you dont throw up

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Charles's avatar

Geez! Shakespeare wrote about him: "Full of sound and fury and signifying nothing".

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Cheryl from Maryland's avatar

You forgot --"Tale told by an idiot".

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jpg's avatar

Just an absolutist, my way or no way. Don’t think he’s ever authored any legislation that’s passed, just wants to vote no.

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dcicero's avatar

He cosplays as a principled conservative, but he caves every time he senses Trump Displeasure.

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Ron Bravenec's avatar

Chip Roy used to be my “representative” until the 2021 redistricting, after which the liberal Democrat Lloyd Doggett took over Austin. What a blessing!

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Kristie S's avatar

Ugh, he’s my rep now. Nothing like seeing Trump, Cruz and Roy yard signs in the neighbors yards.

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Ron Bravenec's avatar

Sorry to hear that! Actually, my wife and I bailed for California about a year and a half ago. Just couldn’t stand the Texas politics.

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Kristie S's avatar

I was born in Texas and have lived here most of my life outside of the army and some college. I hate the politics here and am dumbfounded how these horrid people keep getting elected. I’ve never considered leaving until recently. California is top of my list!

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Lois W. Halbert's avatar

He's cuckoo

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Steve's avatar

Chip Roy (R-TX) has folded like a cheap card table.

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jpg's avatar

I’m challenging Chipper to get some of Elon’s money and run in the Texas GOP Senate primary as a budget deficit hawk, btw, he was Ken Paxton’s first fired employee after being elected AG.

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Greg WF's avatar

So what’s the deal? Are you a MAGA lackey? Seems like lil Chip would drink muddy puddle water mixed with diarrhea, if Trump told him to. But then again, that goes for any of those MAGA sad sacks…………..No offense!

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jpg's avatar

Chip was a DeSantis supporter, Chip has always been dancing to keep from falling or being pushed off the MAGA fence. Chip won’t seek Elon’s support to run a deficit hawk race, he’s all talk to keep his base satiated.

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Elizabeth Caran's avatar

Let's not omit the House Freedom Caucus's role in squashing bipartisan immigration reform under President GW Bush and Obama. They are largely responsible for twenty five years of immigration reform gridlock. If they hadn't inflicted their selfish agenda on the nation, we would have reformed our immigration system.

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Cindy Watter's avatar

I have enjoyed Jasmine Crockett’s outspokenness, but I wish she hadn’t supported the crypto bill. The Trump kids are grateful, though.

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howard's avatar

i personally don't understand how you can continuously embarrass yourself and yet bellow on as though you hadn't, but then again, i'm not a republican voter.

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Mary's avatar

Same Howard, same.

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Kentuckistan's avatar

Seems like people don't appreciate the point I think you're trying to make. How embarrassing it is to watch Republican politicians and Republican voters strut around in this macho physical confrontation posture and then stand down every time it takes the least little risk to follow through on the bombastic things that they have been saying. I think I can count on both hands the Republican that have retired or stood their ground like Liz Cheney rather than completely compromise what they say in non negotiable. Its not an event. It's a political style that has not worn well after 10 years.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Generic trolling shows laziness or a lack of reading comprehension. Please show you've read it by picking out one idea and offering a real critique.

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howard's avatar

Perhaps you don't know the house rules here: the bulwark likes us to keep it clean. I am not trolling, i'm referencing the house freedom caucus and the entire discussion thereof, as at least 9 other people seemed to understand.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

You can discuss any issue in the post clean. I still don't appreciate vagueness, and I don't accept your explanation.

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howard's avatar

Oh my stars, a random commenter won't "accept" my explanation, whatever shall i do? I know: i'll follow the house rules and cease this entirely unpleasant interaction.

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Joshua Scholar's avatar

I agree with Kathleen, you're pathetic!

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Joshua Scholar's avatar

He got 10 other trolls to join just to upvote him.

What a pathetic waste of effort!

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Nickster's avatar

We maintain a kind, disciplined comments section here. Over the past several years, under several handles, I've witnessed obvious disruptors attempt to create dissension and, yes, to troll. That ilk always gives up in frustration and disappointment, sooner or later--usually sooner. Meanwhile, The Bulwark appreciates your modest financial contributions. Thank you for paying and playing! Perhaps you'll have better luck on, say, Reddit?

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

I asked him to clarify the meaning of his comment. In what universe is that trolling?

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Joshua Scholar's avatar

Did you literally pay for a membership just so you can post incoherent tolling into the comments?

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David Court's avatar

Somehow, if I were, heaven forbid, a Gerogia/Georiga/Georgia resident, I would be incensed at anyone who wanted to be MY Senator who did not know how to spell the name of the state. I would expect every second-grader (OK, maybe third) in the State to spell GEORGIA correctly.

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Richard Fairall's avatar

There should be a massive effort to place a billboard on every major highway on the outskirts of every major town in every Red District in the Country identifying by name the U.S. Representative who voted for the Big Ugly Bill listing the eventual damages it will do to its citizens. The same should be done in every State with a Republican Senator up for reelection. Much of the bad stuff will not be apparent to voters until after the midterms; consequently, Democratic Party messaging between now and then is critical!

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orbit's avatar

Absolutely.

The respective constituencies need to have their collective noses rubbed in it.

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Robert J Danolfo's avatar

Joe, Thanks for the reporting, commentary and analysis. I know this will be undignified for me to say, but strange times call for strange solutions. The Freedom Caucus is in need of a new name. May I suggest the Fuck Freedom Caucus?

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Cheerio's avatar

They are the Dickhead Caucus, we all know it.

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Janet Wilson's avatar

What the "Freedom" Caucus types forget, consistently, is that their time in the limelight is supposed to be in support of things that are, you know, good for the citizenry and consistent with the Constitution.

Given that Trump and his cabal of fanatics are concerned with neither, Republicans in Congress no matter what their flavour, are nothing but the bric a brac on the Oval Office walls: useless, tasteless, powerless ornaments.

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George in Atlanta's avatar

"...their time in the limelight is supposed to be in support of things that are, you know, good for the citizenry and consistent with the Constitution."

Where in holy hell did you get that cockamamie idea?!? "FREEDOM!" is bellowed by any insurrectionist or violent cosplayer who wants the exact opposite of those things. The Freedom Caucus was just the first salvo the Right had against institutional government and the idea that it is there to help the citizens. They've since been put out to pasture by the REAL pros in that effort, Trump's minions and DOGE.

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BigDaddy52's avatar

Yeah. 'I'm here to represent my constituents' is now shorthand for 'screw everyone but the ignorant $hitheads who keep voting for me'. I speak from experience, being represented by lickspittle lindsey, tim snot and wreck-it ralph.

BTW, learning here that ralph is considering a run for gubner.... Oh $hit.

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Janet Wilson's avatar

Agreed. And it is a horrible reality, the leopards eaten by larger leopards. This is the karma cost of using your limelight to, as you point out, bellow freedom when you are actually working toward the end of all freedom.

But my point is, being vanquished by even more powerful minions of Trump is just proof that Trump and his fanatic cabal hold all the power and have sucked it right out of Republicans in Congress, rendering said Republicans hollow adornments on the Trump altar.

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George in Atlanta's avatar

All true. And about all that power the cabal holds: they seem remarkably unable to get anything done except through force.

"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers." - Princess Leia, a long time ago.

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Janet Wilson's avatar

Which bring us to the prescient comment by David Frum:

“Maybe you do not care much about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.”

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George in Atlanta's avatar

Indeed. Frum its smarter than the average bear. The case could be made that they have already experienced that rejection.

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Janet Wilson's avatar

Yes, and began that process some years ago...

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George in Atlanta's avatar

Seeing the once-mighty HFC laid low like that is fascinating. It demonstrates, once again, that nothing lasts forever. I think they were outflanked by Trump and DOGE. When it came to the Republican goal of destroying the country, they turned out to be pikers by comparison.

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James Kirkland's avatar

Short leap from HFC to KFC to TACO Don.

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Steve Beste Travels's avatar

Ummm. It's grammar, not grammer. You Real American, you.

"And given the way that intelligence—especially the kind demonstrated in fastidiousness about spelling and grammer—is often coded as classist or elitist, perhaps Collins’s team is betting that Real Americans™ won’t care about the slip and might even get annoyed at anyone who does."

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WDD's avatar

Leaving this here for folks who upvote a comment about grammar. https://youtu.be/8Gv0H-vPoDc?feature=shared

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Joshua Scholar's avatar

The previous most awful people in government were destroyed by even worse people.

Meanwhile the Lincoln Project just ran an "Elon, you should make a new party" advert, pitting a genocidal Fascist against a more powerful Fascist.

A pox on all their houses!

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Jeff's avatar

The only positive to Elon creating a new party is that it may split the Republican vote.

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bitchybitchybitchy's avatar

I see any effort to create another party as another vanity project for Elon.

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MacroV's avatar

I like Jasmine Crockett and for the most part don’t see the profile as negative. But it’s really an unforced error to take issue with the writer’s talking to people. I thought she would know better.

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Jerry Norman's avatar

Crockett's still young, still learning. I agree with her maybe 70% of the time, but always admire her pluck,

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The Blockhead Chronicles's avatar

Perhaps Collins went to Georiga State University, since Georgia State U (his actual alma mater) is in downtown Atlanta, (ETA) part of that urban milieu where Collins would have to associate.

Also ETA: Collins’ father was a US congressman for 22 years, so if ol’ Mike tries to run against the establishment, he’s full of it.

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Justin Lee's avatar

I'm not running for office, but if I did, I'd run in the great state of Tecksus.

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